Government teaching hospital and postgraduate school for tropical diseases in Kolkata, India, with a cord blood bank and regenerative medicine department attached.
The School of Tropical Medicine in Kolkata, West Bengal, is a long-established public institution that is both a postgraduate teaching academy and a hospital. Its clinical arm is the Carmichael Hospital for Tropical Diseases, which grew out of the work of Sir Leonard Rogers, an early specialist in tropical disease. The foundation stone was laid in 1916 and the hospital building was completed in 1920 with government and private funding.
As a hospital it runs outpatient clinics, inpatient wards, laboratory services, a pharmacy and store, nursing services and an antiretroviral therapy centre for people living with HIV. It also houses a department of Regenerative Medicine and Translational Science together with a cord blood bank, which is where any cell-related activity sits.
This is a state teaching hospital rather than a private stem cell clinic. Its website is directed at students and at patients using its general services, and it does not advertise stem cell treatments, list conditions treated with cells, or describe an international patient service. Anyone approaching it about cell therapy would be dealing with an academic hospital department, and would need to ask directly what is available and on what basis.
The institution describes itself as a specialist centre for tropical diseases but does not publish a list of individual conditions on its website.
Cell-related work is confined to a named department and a cord blood bank; no cell treatments are advertised.
The institution is at 108 C R Avenue, Kolkata 700 073, West Bengal, India, and can be reached on 033-2212 3695 or 033-2212 3698. The Carmichael Hospital building was completed in 1920, following a foundation stone laid in 1916. The website does not state opening hours, languages spoken or any service for patients travelling from abroad.
No fees or consultation costs are published on the website.
Profile compiled from information published on the clinic's own website and from the StemCell Registry directory record. Details may change; confirm directly with the clinic before making decisions.